Hillsboro recorder., 1887-12-22
Farm and Garden Notes.

Cheesy taste in fell butter is attributed
to imferfect cleansing of the butter from
the buttermilk.
Refuse from steel works, freed from
iron and reduced to powder, represents
the newest fertilizsr.
Foul air poisons farm animals as rap.
idly and surely as it does human beings.
Ventilate the stables.
Melons grow and ripen best in newly
cleared forest land, says correspondent
of American Caltirator.
According to DIR. Phares of Mississippi
the best beef is made from well-matured
animals. no matter how old.
Onions will not keep well, il piled up,
but in cool place there will be no diff
Guilty with them if they be spread in
thin layers
Colts halter broken and accustomed to
lead by the side of the mother, to
buggy or wagon, when driven, are
thoroughly broken to lead.
Raw meat, chopped fine and fed once
day, will produce more eggs than any
other food given a hen. Give one pound
Of rough, lean meat to fifteen hens.
"The hog is naturally the cleanest ami.
NAL known" affirms writer, who also
attributes swine cholera largely to the
use of corn as food for growing pigs.
The fall is an excellent timsto sow
blue grass, broadcasting the seed evenly,
ten pounds to the acre, on ground that
is we'll prepared, manured and har.
rowed.
Ripe pumpkins are considered profit
able food for beef cattle, milch cows and
hogs by many farmers. The seeds have
an injurious action and should be re-
moved.
A new pear, exhibited at the recent New
York State Fair, is the Barseckel, a
CT ''s between the Bartlett and Seckel.
It resembles the former in shape, is of
medium size, greenish skin, and juicy;
flesh Of fine grain.
A Nebraska farmer says his alfalfa
patch afforded excellent feed, last sum
mer, while the drouth put stop to the
growth Of grass and clover. The danger
TO the plant is the liability Of being
killed by the rigor of the first winter.
The shorthorn breeds of cattle have
become so generally distributed over
the country that but comparatively low
prices are now realized for the animals
at public sales. And yet it would be
wise for farmers to stock up with the
best.
When hogs have the run of field, it
Is rarely the case that they will get so
feverish as to be foundered all over, but
they will often get quite stiff. The corn
should be mixed with bran or oats, and
only half Of the bulk Of the food should
be Of the corn or earbonaceous sort.
Such feyered pork is not the thing to
eat. When hogs are fed all the corn
meal they will eat, onethird Of it is
wasted.
Few farmers are aware, says the
American CHItiratOr, that the apple-tree
borer also attacks and destroys trees Of
mountain ash. Not only may this beauti-
full tree be swept away from lack OF
care in guarding against this enemy, but
the borers bred in mountain ash may in
their turn carry destruction TO neighbor-
ing orchards. Now is the time to look
for the work Of the borer in either kind
Of tree.
The French mode Of killing poultry
causing instant death and perfect bleed
ing, is accomplished by opening the
beak Of the fowl and with a sharp
pointed and narrow -bladed knife max
ing an ineision at the back of the roof Of
the mouth, which will divide the vertebra
and cause immediate death, after which
the fowls are hung up by the legs until
bled. They are then picked when
warm. In thi' way the skin presents q
natural appearance.
-"It Is not the nature Of cow" says
the National Lire -StOct Journal, discuss.
ing the question of the amount oi
exercise q COW requires, ''to exercise
much. She prefers in the open field tc
quietly crop the grass until her stomach
Is full, and then lie down in the shade
and peacefully chew her cud with 4
dreamy expression Of the eye that de.
notes rest and enjoyment. She doei
not run and cayort like the horse.
This Is not her mission"
Farmers think more highly Of Tho
young clover than they used TO, and arc
learning 10 treat II more dccently, say.
the Philadelphia Press Grain and stub.
bic used to Jc turngl into as soon as the
crop was secured, partly to save scatter.
ing grain, but mainly to let stock get Q
fresh bite at the young feed. Where 4
clover plant Is eaten down TO the root
the growth Of the latter Is much i'm.
paired. The plant rorc easily becomes
a victim 70 Il O severity Of winter.
There arc now scores Of farmers in thii
country who would as soon turn stocl
into a grain field just before as jnst
after harvest. But when the clover be-
gins TO blossom in fall light pasturine
! sufficient 20 keen the heads down Ia moi